Have you ever spent summer days spent dozing beneath sycamores along the river? And have you ever seen, through sunlight leaking from the leaves above, water flow to the next dream? There, playgrounds and woodchips glowed; floating innocently. Keith Freund’s Constant Comments rolls over with waves and reaches inside without tearing too hard. Trouble Books member (and recent Mark McGuire/Emeralds collaborator) teaches us what it means to flow. There is a calm restraint, a drone begging to be held and felt-- something I have only previously found with books, and The Books.
“The Ortzi” leaves words in passing fragments-- a true examination of human thought and disconnection. Beauty is, of course, everywhere but fleeting. “He Noticed I’m alive… and other hopeful signs” is reminiscent of Charles Spearin’s (of Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think fame) happiness tape experimentation, but brings the melancholy musicality Spearin was missing. “Is Anything Too Hard For God?” is, perhaps, a perfect finale. We were brought to the top of the mountain by the 1:19 mark. And now how do we get back down?
Pick up the Constant Comments LP from the wonderful Experimedia (and hurry, there are only 300). Friends in Europe, do not miss Keith Freund when he tours this August. You will remember this for years to come.
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